The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-07
Farm Notes.

Large breeds OF sheep require good pasturage.
| They VIII pay only when the conditions are IA
yorable. Uneven pasture. coarse grass and
| plcklngs VIII not do for them. They must be
| supplied with all they may require.
The od-fashioned plan Of hanging the seed
corn to the Joists of the kitchen by the husks
which had been stripped back and plated to-
eether for the purpose. always secured "seed
that would grow" beca use it thoroughly
dried
Many we'll known weeds. though unfit for
food when matured. are highly valued green's
when young. The poke weed has been used in
some sect ons for years. yet its berries pois-
onous. 1t is now claimed that the common
purslaine is excellent when young green's.
1t is quite EXPENSIVE to put an acre of ground
in onions, owing to the high price of seed. while
the labor of raising acre of them is also ardu.
Gus and costly; but should an acre of onieus be
secured, and the crop good It will pay we'll, as
some growers have obtained many as 600
bushels per acre.
One of the principal causes of heaves in horses
is the feeding of dusty or dirty hay. Ordinary
clean hay can always be fed with safety il prop
erly cut mp, moistened and mixed with ground
grain: but to feed the musty or dirty sorts 10
very injurious. Glover. owing to its liability to
and should never be fed without being previ-
ously moistened.
Poultry manure is excellent fertilizer for
strawberry plants. The proper mode of apply
ing it is to spread it thickly over the plants in
the row after the leaves have dried. In the
spring the new leaves will push above the
manure and the rains will carry the soluble por-
tions down to the roots On light sandy soils
the manure should not be applied before the
middle of January. but on heavy soils it may be
spread late in the fall
It has been demonstrated that nut-bearinR
trees can be made to pay more than the interest
on the value of the land occupied during growth.
as 1ell as TO return larger profit at the end of
twenty-five years in timber than could have
been made on such land in regular crops. Where
a farmer has more land than he can cultivate he
would ind it to his advantage to plant a grove of
walnuts. chestnuts, or some other valuable
wood or nut-bearing trees.
A farmer Of many years experiences gives Ia
the Farm and Homo some of the many causes Of
the deficient hay crop. He says it is the close
cut of the moving m achine and the dull knives
pulling up the grass roots; also the scratching
and narrowing of the remorseless wheel rakes,
held down to get the last spear, followed by the
close pasturing in the fall. Mora Raise up
the cutter bar and keep sharp knives for the
good of the team, if nothing else. Above all
things. keep off stock in the fall Also use top
dressing
W. F. Brown. in the Rural New Yorker says:
II find more profit from the cows that come in
fresh in the fall than from those that fresh
in the spring Not only does butter bring a
beer price, but think the cows give more
I N year under this management, for just
" they come to the time when they would
n6 lily begin to shrink largely in their milk
they 20 on fresh pastures and increase the flow,
while a cow that is fresh in the spring begins to
shrink just at the season of failin pastures and
the transition from green to dry feed. and a
great falling off of milk is unavoidable"
Popular Gardening suggests that owners Of
hot-bed eashes utilize these for making sun
driers for drying surplus fruit The sash should
be elevated frame four feet from the
ground at the front, and a foot higher behind.
A rack with supports for drying trays at four or
i've inches apart should be constructed under
the SASH to be reached from behind. The place
Of approach for sliding in taking out the
trays may be covered with fly screening, the
other sides with boards. The sash will both in
crease the heat and keep off the dew and rain,
thus allowing the drying to proceed from be-
ginning to end speedily. and with the smallest
possible amount of bother.